If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Adjectives are classed as :1) fact adjectives and 2) opinion adjectives.
Fact adjectives give us factual information about age,size, colour etc.
Long/short; young/old;hot/cold are fact adj.
On the other hand, beautiful/ugly;interesting/boring, are opinion adjectives.
Opinion adjectives go before fact ones.
When we use two or more fact adjectives like in your first case, we often,but not always, set them in this order:
1) how big? 2) how old? 3) what colour? 4) where from? 5) what is it made of?
So it would be correct to say: friendly fat young man.Fat/round/thin/slim/wide are shape and width adjectives, while big/small/tall/short/long are size and length adjectives.
I hope this helps.

Re: Adjective Order

You're welcome.
When you use two or more adj. of the same category it is necessary to use a comma, on the other hand when you use adj. that belong to different categories,you don't.Horrible and greedly are opinion adjectives and you correctly used coma (because they belong to the same category).Gorgeous is opinion adj, while green-eyed and black-haired are both fact adjectives and again you were right not to use coma between the first two and to use between the two last ones.

Re: Adjective Order

Originally Posted by grammar girl

You're welcome.
When you use two or more adj. of the same category it is necessary to use a comma, on the other hand when you use adj. that belong to different categories,you don't.Horrible and greedly are opinion adjectives and you correctly used coma (because they belong to the same category).Gorgeous is opinion adj, while green-eyed and black-haired are both fact adjectives and again you were right not to use coma between the first two and to use between the two last ones.

Thank you, grammar girl, so very much for helping others understand English.This is the first time I have seen such explanation that deserves to be taken into consideration. As you see in my quotation that we can use comma instead of the connected word "and" when there is a room for "and" to be inserted. In a nutshell, do "modern and complex" belong to the same category?

PS: I have posted my comment on this thread because they (my comment and this thread) are very closely related.